You Need Not Fear, For I Am Strong

Jesus said:  "Why are you afraid?   Do you not know that I love you and am watching over you?   It is all for souls...  They must know Me... they must love Me more...  Children ought to make their father known.   You are My well-loved... that through you I may be revealed and that My Heart may be glorified.   You need not fear, for I am strong and will make you strong; I am Love and will sustain you... I will not abandon you...

I am Love!   My Heart can no longer contain its devouring flames.   I love souls so dearly that I have sacrificed My life for them...

How often in the course of the ages have I, in one way or another, made known My love for men:  I have shown them how ardently I desire their salvation.   I have revealed My Heart to them.   This devotion has been as light cast over the whole earth, and today is a powerful means of gaining souls, and so of extending My kingdom.

Now, I want something more, for if I long for love in response to My own, this is not the only return I desire from souls:  I want them all to have confidence in My mercy, to expect all from My clemency, and never to doubt My readiness to forgive.

I am God, but a God of love!   I am a Father, but a Father full of compassion and never harsh.   My Heart is infinitely holy but also infinitely wise, and knowing human frailty and infirmity stoops to poor sinners with infinite mercy.

I love those who after a first fall come to Me for pardon... I love them still more when they beg pardon for their second sin, and should this happen again, I do not say a million times but a million million times, I still love them and pardon them...

Never shall I weary of repentant sinners, nor cease from hoping for their return, and the greater their distress, the greater My welcome.   Does not a father love a sick child with special affection?   Are not his care and solicitude greater?   So is the tenderness and compassion of My Heart more abundant for sinners than for the just.

This is what I wish all to know.   I will teach sinners that the mercy of My Heart is inexhaustible.   Let the callous and indifferent know that My Heart is a fire which will enkindle them, because I love them..."

The source of all goodness and wisdom is God, and this particular message was conveyed through:  The Way of Divine Love, revelations of Jesus to Sister Josefa Menendez, p.348,9  (Recommend Bible as primary source and these teachings as supplemental)